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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: Use of "?" for help has been deprecated for 8 years, can we drop it?
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 17:45:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201001154550.GB41938@linux.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2ac2d7da-fd5f-babf-a0ec-b733552d1978@de.ibm.com>

Am 01.10.2020 um 17:23 hat Christian Borntraeger geschrieben:
> 
> 
> On 01.10.20 13:20, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 11:35, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> We deprecated "?" more than eight years ago.  We didn't have a
> >> deprecation process back then, but we did purge "?" from the
> >> documentation and from help texts.  Can we finally drop it?
> > 
> > Is it really that terrible a burden to support having an
> > alias for 'help' ?
> 
> I agree. Having the "?" is really convenient. 

If people actually care about "?", can one of you send a patch to remove
the comment that declares it deprecated?

Kevin



  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-01 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-01 10:35 Use of "?" for help has been deprecated for 8 years, can we drop it? Markus Armbruster
2020-10-01 10:46 ` Thomas Huth
2020-10-01 11:20 ` Peter Maydell
2020-10-01 15:23   ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-10-01 15:45     ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2020-10-01 13:06 ` Eric Blake
2020-10-01 13:17   ` Kevin Wolf
2020-10-01 15:04     ` Thomas Huth
2020-10-01 14:02   ` BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-02 10:50     ` Gerd Hoffmann

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